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Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present

https://thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-the-past-and-devils-of
3•benbreen•1d ago

How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

https://timmarinin.net/2026/bluesky-screenshots/
376•gavide•7h ago•250 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-5.6-sol
303•Topfi•8h ago•156 comments

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
254•shdon•7h ago•111 comments

Shattered skeleton is first confirmed death from trebuchet

https://www.science.org/content/article/shattered-skeleton-scottish-castle-first-confirmed-death-...
40•hermitcrab•4d ago•25 comments

The Benchmarkpocalypse

https://danluu.com/benchpocalypse/
42•cyndunlop•3h ago•2 comments

I don't enjoy the Internet any more

https://btao.org/posts/2026-08-17-i-dont-enjoy-the-internet/
53•g0xA52A2A•42m ago•38 comments

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

https://duckdb.org/2026/08/17/duckdb-20-highlights
588•ibotty•16h ago•106 comments

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera
129•pizzaiolo•7h ago•29 comments

Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/wellington-second-hand-book-store-s-mysterious-orders
46•beanaroo•1d ago•23 comments

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

https://www.wiz.io/blog/red-agent-snowflake-copilot-cicd-bug
349•galnagli•15h ago•137 comments

GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13759
185•linggen•12h ago•36 comments

Olo (Color)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)
381•inigyou•5d ago•74 comments

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2
49•whobre•5d ago•16 comments

Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/
297•DeepLogin•9h ago•169 comments

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-gpt-5-6/
320•plurby•17h ago•156 comments

An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

https://moddedbear.com/an-update-on-leaving-gmail-for-fastmail/
170•neogodless•12h ago•115 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
743•mooreds•10h ago•477 comments

Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data

https://current.org/2026/08/judge-sets-framework-for-nine-pbs-to-retrieve-archival-data/
151•qingcharles•13h ago•59 comments

Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-lonely-men-at-the-end-of-the-world
131•bookofjoe•11h ago•46 comments

India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xnwqe00v1o
125•monkey_monkey•10h ago•151 comments

Sun Clock

https://sunclock.net/
203•Gecko4072•13h ago•63 comments

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

https://www.librarian.net/notoai/
276•ColinWright•15h ago•165 comments

How do functions like alloca allocate memory from the stack?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260817-40/?p=112617
48•ingve•8h ago•19 comments

Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items

https://www.repaircafe.org/
68•rglover•6h ago•10 comments

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

https://speko.ai/
99•abdik•14h ago•58 comments

A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/a-digestion-of-the-proof-of-sendovs-conjecture/
21•surprisetalk•4d ago•7 comments

A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02498-1
118•Brajeshwar•5d ago•30 comments

Ghosts of the Past and Devils of the Present

https://thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/ghosts-of-the-past-and-devils-of
3•benbreen•1d ago•0 comments

scScript for Linux

https://scapplications.com/
29•OptionOfT•7h ago•10 comments

Expert Witness to ChatGPT: "Show how 3M is 0 percent at fault"

https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-def...
23•kristjansson•2h ago•2 comments